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in the middle east. this is the "cnn newsroom." i'm wolf blitzer in washington. lots of news we're following right now. including this, a bride's big night out before the wedding turns into tragedy on a california bridge. she and her girlfriends were just four minutes away from their bachelorette party when their limo caught fire. the driver and four of the bride's friends managed to escape. the bride and four others didn't make it. cnn's dan simon is covering this story for us. he's in san mateo, california. i know we're getting really for a news conference. they're going to be releasing new information about how the survivors got out, what happened. tell us what we know right now, dan. >> reporter: wolf, what we know is the driver, who is unhurt, has spoken to investigators. he's spoken to some reporters. and what he is saying is that at around 10:00 on this bridge behind me, the san mateo hayward bridge, as they were going to a hotel to drop these women off

for the bachelorette party, one of the women in the limousine knocked on the partition and said that there was smoke. initially, there was some confusion. the driver thought the group was asking if they could smoke cigarettes. when in reality they were complaining about the smoke. so he pulled over and he estimates it was somewhere between 30 seconds and a minute later -- and by that time the flames had already well advanced in the vehicle. there was a lot of activity in the car. some of the women were trying to go through the partition. apparently four of the victims, at least the victims who surv e survived, got through the partition and exited through a front door of the car. now, the women who died were found near the partition which would suggest they were trying desperately to get out of that car, but whether it was smoke, whether the flames were so intense, we don't know. but that's one of the things that investigators are looking at. and of course trying to determine how, in fact, that fire may have started. >> are they saying anything about how the fire may have

started at least so far, dan? >> not yet, wolf. other than to say that it looks like it started in the back of the vehicle. maybe in the trunk area. we don't know if this was some kind of electrical fire, whether there was a fuel leak. right now investigators are combing over that car. so it's a real mystery. they said it could take several days to figure out, wolf. >> we're expecting a news conference momentarily. maybe we'll get some more information. of course we'll monitor that and see what they have to say. there's the microphones. once the police arrive there, the california highway patrol and others, including some from the fire department, we'll go there, we'll seal whe what they to say. dan simon is watching it for us. we'll get back to you as well, dan, thanks very much. another bachelor ooet party and another tragic accident. the kansas highway patrol says

26-year-old jamie flex fell out of an emergency door of a party bus thursday night and died after being hit by three vehicles. she has a baby daughter who was only 5 1/2 weeks old. she got engaged on christmas day. her aunt says the family can't believe it happened. and that they're living a nightmare right now. want to get you up to speed on the latest developments in the boston bombing investigation. several cemeteries are refusing to bury the suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. the city manager says he won't allow him to be buried there. one of the friends charged in connection with the bombing is due in court next hour. he wants to be let out on bail. documents obtained by cnn indicate both sides are, in fact, considering possible conditions for his release. federal authorities, meanwhile,

were back at tamerlan's tsarnaev's apartment in cambridge executing a search warrant. a search says earlier traces turned up traces of explosives residues in three place, the kitchen table, the kitchen sink and the bathtub. it took two weeks for a relative to claim his body. now a challenge is finding a place to bury tamerlan. the director of the funeral home where his body was taken is left in limbo. >> at this point, any outcome will be better than nothing. we do have to bury the person, regardless of what he said earlier. this country, we bury the dead. funeral directors have done this for years. there aren't too many options. when there's no problem, it's very easy. but there is a big problem. somebody has to step in. we have to. i've gone as far as i can go with it. >> joe johns is on the scene for us in boston right now. so, john, what's the latest efforts to find a place to bury

tsarnaev? >> reporter: you need a flow chart for this one, wolf. frankly, the city of cambridge has said no to the body. they've said maybe the fbi ought to get involved. the fbi has said not my job. the funeral director has said he will go to the governor of massachusetts and just a few minutes ago we got a transcript of statements by the governor of massachusetts, duval patrick, when he was asked about this, he said essentially this isn't a state or federal issue, it's a family issue. i hone the family will make a decision soon. he was asked if communities have a right to refuse a body. he said, i don't think it's a right, it's a family issue. he was asked if he was concernled thconcerned that the body might become a shrine or place to gather to gather to protest, he said no. he said, i don't have a comment on that, it's a family issue. so it just seems to be going

around and around. we have heard there is still talk about taking the body back to russia. but that involves a lot of money. and there are people at this hour trying to raise some of that money, wolf. >> joe, stand by for a moment. i'll get back to you. that news conference out in california has just begun, with the commander of the redwood city, california, highway patrol. he's talking about that tragic death, the fire in the limousine for that bride. >> -- will take several weeks to complete, but the california highway patrol, the foster city fire department, the coroner's office, are all committing to ensuring the utmost thoroughness of this investigation and to be able to offer to the victims and their families some semblance of answers for the tragic events that just occurred. now, we'd like to introduce foster city fire chief michael keefe. >> good morning. my name's michael keefe.

i'm the fire chief for foster city. last name is k-e-e-f, like frank, e. on behalf of the firefighters and our community, we send our thoughts and prayers to the families, friends and loved ones of those who died and were injured by this tragic event. firefighters work hard every day to help those who call us. our actions could not change the course of events that led to this tragedy. we are devastated by this incident. we struggle to make sense of how a seemingly great event turned so tragic. we are determined to find answers to what caused this event and our fire investigators are working in conjunction with the california highway patrol team and others to find the cause. we send our deepest regrets to those who are suffering the aftermath of this event and our prayers for those who are injured for a quick recovery. as stated earlier, we're in the midst of an active investigation. and as such, we're not going to comment today on cause or

origin. but i will introduce our lead fire investigator, deputy -- sorry, fire marshal john mapes. >> hi, i'm john mapes, lead investigator. that's m-a-p-e-s. and can't release too much information to you right now. there is an ongoing investigation. there will be help from experts from different departments, chp, and ours, to determine the cause. right now, i don't have anything for you on the cause. thank you. >> i would now like to introduce the -- >> clearly there's a lot of concern, there's an investigation. it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what happened. traj, tragic death. the bride, four friends, die in the back of that white limous e

limousine. there were only four or five minutes away from their definition. they were going to be meeting up with the groom and family members. all of a sudden, flames, smoke, and then flames destroyed that limousine, that white limousine, on the highway there. and such a tragic, tragic story. we did hear at the beginning of the news conference from the commander of the redwood city, california, highway patrol. the limousine had a maximum capacity for eight people. there were nine people inside. but there's no reason to believe one additional person inside that huge white limo had anything to do with the cause of this tragic fire and the death of the bride and her four friends in the back there of that limo. we'll stay on top of the story and update you if we get more information. that's the very latest from the authorities, the fire and police authorities, out in california. there's other news we're watching right now, including jodi arias' fate, in the hands of a jury right now. some of the toughest questions that she faced came from the

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putting them in this wire basket for the judge to read. >> what is your understanding of the word skank? >> reporter: this man says asking questions helped him and his fellow jurors decide the fate of david anthony, sentenced for killing his wife and two stepchildren. >> our questions were basic, down to earth heartfelt questions. to separate fact from fiction. >> i think it would have been useful to be able to ask questions. >> reporter: ricardo has served as a juror in california five times, including the first murder trial of music producer fill spector that ended in a hung jury. >> at this time i find the jury is unable to arrive at a verdict. >> reporter: enrique thinks asking questions could have helped. >> the defense experts were asking us to kind of suspend common sense and physics. it would have been helpful to come back and question him on some of the details they were trying to explain. >> reporter: besides arizona,

colorado and indiana are the only other states where jurors have the right to ask questions. most states leave it up to judges. five states, minnesota, georgia, mississippi, nebraska and texas actually have laws prohibiting jurors from asking questions. this jury consultant travels between her home outside phoenix and court rooms across the country. she's been helping clients pick juries for nearly 30 years including the one that acquitted o.j. simpson on murder charges. she thinks arizona's cam pell should be followed by every state. >> i think the jurors are much more engaged in the process because they know they're actually part of the process. they're not just kind of sitting there like bumps on the log waiting till the judge says, okay, now i've read you the jury instructions, you can go back and deliberate. >> and ted rowlands is joining us. ted, you know this has caused a lot of media attention, this case. are the juries affected by all of the media attention?

>> reporter: well, it's hard to imagine a scenario, wolf where they wouldn't be affected on some level. the defense fileded for a mistrial at one point because the prosecutor was getting ambushed by fans of his outside the courthouse. the judge has been very good, asking, have you been approached by the media, and they have repeated lid sa eedly said no. given the amount of coverage of this case, it's hard to imagine it hasn't seeped in on some level. >> anything happen so far in the deliberations today? >> reporter: they've been at it about an hour and 15 minutes and so far no questions and -- about five minutes ago, the judge ordered everybody out of the courtroom, all of the media there waiting for any word of a question or development. but otherwise no, they are hard at work. and they've got a lot of work to do. four months of testimony to pour

over. >> this will take i assume some time for this jury to make up its mind. thank you very much. we'll stay in close touch. in los angeles, members of michael jackson's family returned to court today. jackson's mother and children are suing his concert promoter aeg live for billions of dollars. they claim aeg is liable in the pop star's death. they say aeg hired conrad murray. the toxicology who testified in murray's trial is expected to be today's first witness. in philadelphia, the 72-year-old abortion doctor is awaiting his fate. he's accused of first degree murder for allegedly killing babies born alive during late term abortions. jurors are now in their fifth day of deliberating after not reaching a verdict friday. the judge in the casey anthony case is talking to the media for the first time since that trial. on the "today" show, the judge told how he saw two sideses of

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punched the ref at a game two weekends ago. the ref had just given the teen a warning for breaking the rules. family and friends held a vigil in his memory yesterday in salt lake city. we spoke to the referee's daughter. her heart wants to forgive but her mind does not. >> i will forgive this kid because it's only on god's hands for him to have his punishment, not on mine. but right now it's too soon to forgive him. >> police initially charged him with aggravated assault. now authorities may upgrade the charges. cnn legal analyst paul callen said he could still escape a homicide charge. >> the defense here will be in striking a single punch, it's

obvious the 17-year-old did not intend to kill. so the killing turns out to be an accidental killing. so the defense will claim. so i don't think you get it on an intentional ground. however, there may be a claim that it was reckless or that it was negligent for him to make this punch. but you would only win on that i think if the 17-year-old was a trained boxer or had martial arts experience. then one punch maybe could kill somebody. so i don't think really -- they may charge this as a homicide. i've looked at the statute in utah. and it's going to be very hard to prevail as a homicide. i think it's going to be an assault case. but you see he's a juvenile also. if we treat him as a juvenile, essentially facing a slap on the wrist for this crime. >> paul callan weighing in on the sad story of the utah soccer referee who has died after being punched by a teenaged player. in georgia, police are

asking for help with the mysterious case of a missing 19-year-old college student. police say he has been missing from the cochran campus of middle georgia state campus for more than a week. he had breakfast with his roommate on april 25th. later walked out of the dorm and has not been seen or heard from since. they say he left behind all his belonging, his phone, and he does not own a car. police have searched door to door near the campus and they're looking in atlanta as well where he is from. let's head overseas right now. two rockets have hit the golan heights, which a strategically important mountainous region between israel and syria. israel's defense says the rockets were fired erroneously as a byproduct of syria's internal conflict.

but it comes amid escalating tensions between the two countries after syria was hit with massive air strikes over the weekend. a u.s. official confirms the attackses weractionacks were la. it killed 42 soldiers and left 100 people missing. farwa georges joins us now. he's the author of "obama and the middle east." also the author of "the rise and fall of al qaeda." professor thanks very much for coming in. you write if the strikes are confirmed to be israeli attacked, and we at cnn, we have confirmed this now, it would show the syrian conflict has mutated you say from a political uprising to an internal arms struggle but has now mutated into becoming a regional war by proxy. is that what we're seeing now? >> absolutely. i think what we are seeing now

is an open-ended war by proxy. it's no longer an implicit war by proxy. on the one hand, you have israel, regional powers and the western states. on the other hand, iran, hezbollah and syria. i would argue, wolf, it would take a spark in this calculation to ignite a bigger conflict in the region. i would argue also that the main target, the main target of israeli's alleged attacks against syria were not just the assad governments and at ataass army but rather hezbollah and iran. you will see deepening involvement of hezbollah and iran in syria. they will go to great lengths to prevent the removal of assad by the opposition. so now unfortunately for the syrian people, the internal struggle, the political uprising, the internal arms struggle, has been superseded by multiple proxy wars in syria. >> a lot of people are

wondering, espec lially here in the united states, will this force the u.s. to take more direct action, is the united states going to get involved directly on the ground in the air in >> wolf, my reading, and i could be wrong, i think president barack obama is absolutely correct to be hesitant, to be reluctant to plunge into the killing field, s of syria. remember when the united states invaded iraq in 2003, both hezbollah and iran were impli t implicitly on the side of the united states. they wanted to get rid of saddam hussein. if the united states enter militarily in syria, if the united states basically becomes militarily involved, both hezbollah and iran and, ironically, the so-called liberated iraq, would be battling the united states forces in syria. if our reading is correct. if this particular conflict has mutated into a war by proxy. i would augurgue that america's

military intervention would exacerbate an already dangerous conflict. i would like the united states to become more involved politically. i would like the president, the united states and russia, to really redouble their efforts to reach an understanding, a political settlement, whereby the opposition and el mbements the syrian government talk about a solution to remove assad from power rather than remove assad by force. this is not going to happen as long as it is a war by proxy that has been raging for the last two years. >> what about the latest suggestion out there, the insinuation not the syrian military was using chemical weapons sarin gas, but the rebels were using sarin gas. you've heard these conflicting allegations over the past 24 hours. >> wolf, what does this tell us? i mean, today, the spokesperson for the united nations

independence commission says the evidence, she has concede, concrete evidence that some emmentes of the rebels used chemical agents in a town outside aleppo in march. what this tells us, again, is president barack obama is correct to insist on establishing custody. to insist on establishing ownership. who and how and where chemical agents were used. but this also tells you now which is what we're talking about, wolf, in fact, the escalati escalation, the recent escalation, has also really superseded the entire discussion about chemical weapons. you have israel attacking syria. now we're talking about missiles being fired through the golan heights. the authorities yesterday leaked a report saying the plan to escalate the front, the occupied golan front, in the same way that southern lebanon, the southern lebanese front is escalated. this tells you what i'm talking about. the risk of miscalculation. the spark that could easily trigger a bigger fire, a bigger

conflict in the area. >> professor farwas gerges joining us from london, thank you. we'll have more on these latest developments coming in, in "the situation room," later today. our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour and fareed zakaria will be joining us during our 6:00 p.m. eastern hour of "the situation room." stay tuned for that. what a weekend in sports. from the kentucky derby to nascar racing to the nba. some really unbelievable finishes. we'll have details. that's next. [ indistinct conversations ]

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>> good afternoon. the superspeedway at talladega is known for its crashes and yesterday did not disappoint. after an over 3 1/2 hour rain delay, hln's own robin meade is on hand. singing the national anthem. a couple crashes. the big one coming with just six laps to go. kurt busch gets hit, barrel roll, ends up on top of ryan newman's car. luckily, everyone would be okay. after the restart, david ragan

passes carl edwards to take the checkered flag for his first win of the season. on saturday, orb galloped its way through a muddy churchill downs to win the 139th running of the kentucky derby. up next for the colt is the preakness stakes on may 18 which is the second leg of the triple crown. orb is trying to become the first triple crown winner since affirm in '78. the second round of the nba playoffs kicking off yesterday in the east. the knicks looking to build on their first round win over the celtics. pacers had other ideas. behind a balanced attack, indiana built a canommanding second half lead. and went on to beat new york. the knicks have never won a playoff series after losing game one at home. in the west, the top-seepded thunder in trouble late against the grizzlies. kevin durant came to the rescue. knocking down the clutch jump shot here with 11 seconds to go. understo thunder winning game one. sunday, lebron james name md the league's mvp, making him the

youngest player to win the award four timings it the first unanimous mvp selection. but one voted for carmelo anthony. a head scratcher. lebron isn't worryled about the voting process or winning individual awards. >> this really doesn't mean much to me. i'm humbled. i'm happy about it. but i wish there were 15 of these up here because i'm with a great group of guys that allow me to be the mvp each and every night. >> all right, may the force be with you. the toledo mud hens getting in the spirit of the holiday this weekend. players wore chewbacca-like jerseys and their fans dress the as favorite characters. definitely some awesome costumes out there at the ballpark. the force art apparently not very strong with the mud hens this weekend. they ended up losing both games. back to you. >> too bad for the mud hens. congratulations to lebron. thank you. a game changer in the field of medicine.

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every day, hospitals across the united states, millions of doses of drugs are given to patients. sometimes they may get the wrong medicine. that can lead to tragic results even death in the worst situations. but one california hospital, they're experimenting. they're trying something new. they're using robots to eliminate errors. our dan simon is on the story in

san francisco. >> reporter: making sure hospital patients get the right medicine is critical. he's being treated for leukemia at ucsf, the university of california san francisco medical center. >> taking about five pills in the morning and a couple in the afternoon. >> reporter: how jorge gets his pills offers a window into the ever changing world of health care and how technology can eliminate critical life or death errors. his medicine came from the hospital's so-called robotic pharmacy. a machine instead of humans fills the prescriptions. it plucks pills one by one and packages them. this doctor says it's been a game changer in the field of medicine. >> the robot gives a huge amount of confidence because we know the pharmacist and pharmacy technicians are incredibly skilled people but they're humans and they will occasionally make mistakes. >> reporter: errores are all too common. the institute of medicine found on average there's at least one

medication error per hospital patient per day. that means that no one is immune to an error. but it also notes that error rates vary widely across facilities. cnn first covered this emerging trend of robotic pharmacies nearly two years ago. since it made its debut here in 2011, ucsf has added additional safeguards like bar coding the medicine right up to the point it's administered to the patient. >> it takes the human element out of picking a drug off the shelf and sending it back to the floor where the patient is. where even if you got that right 99% of the time, you know, we give something like 3 million doses of drug in three months here. 1% error rate is far too high. >> reporter: it might sound like a job killer but the hospital says no. instead, administrators say they can better leverage pharmacist skills by allowing them to spend more time in the hospital focusing on drug therapies.

nationwide though the robots still are not wide spread. the reason? cost. ucsf paid $7 million for its pr for them to eventually become standard. >> i think this is the way that our profession is moving on a nation that is part of our career. >> reporter: which in turn can save lives from human mistakes and boost confidence in the nation's hospitals. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. so are you a busy online shopper? well, it could cost you a little bit more for everything you buy. we're going to tell you why a vote in the u.s. senate later today is aimed potentially right at your wallet. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good.

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this weekend, when we saw this, cody wilson at that texas company, using a 3-d printer to make a plastic gun, that was the shot heard around the world. wilson posted the video online. he says it is the very first time a gun printed entirely on a 3-d printer has been fired. i talked with him on the fphone this morning. he said friday one gun was fired remotely with a 380 caliber round. saturday, they upped the game, fired a second round by hand. that blew the barrel out. he said he retired that particular gun. but wilson says this is going to change the very concept of gun control. he's already posted a link to that gun design. anyone can download and print and that is what has some lawmakers very worried. >> let's think about this for a second. now anyone, a terrorist, someone who is mentally ill, a smopousa abuser, a felon, can essentially open a gun factory in their

garage. >> reporter: it has 15 plastic pieces, one metal firing pin. he said that's as simple as a roofing nail you can buy for a few pennies at any hardware store. it doesn't violate the undetectible vfirearms act, but this will change the way people think about getting a gun, wolf. >> emily schmidt reporting for us. thanks for that report. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." that's it for me. brooke baldwin takes it from here. just moments ago, police revealed a timeline of exactly what happened inside that bridal party limo just before it burst into flames. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. what to do with the body of a terror suspect. in boston, no one wants it. verdict watch. any minute jodi arias could learn her fate. we're live when it all goes down. >>